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Pam Strickland 
A native of Harriman,
Tenn., Pam Strickland has made her living
as a writer, editor and/or writing teacher since she became a copy editor
for The UT Daily Beacon in 1978. She has a BS in communications
from the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville and has spent seven years delaying
final revisions of
her well-defended thesis (Working title: The Rhetoric of the Female Body
in the Writing Classroom: A Feminine Critique) for a masters' in technical
and expository writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
She has worked as a daily journalist covering politics and social justice
issues in Tennessee and Arkansas and earning the description of a "reporter
I really respected" from Bill Clinton. Her essays have appeared in
The East Tennessee Writer, the Arkansas Hunger News and
the Arkansas Times. "Heritage Uncovered" was named Outstanding
Essay 1999 by the UALR nonfiction journal Quills and Pixels,
which also published, "Anxiety in the Writing Process." "Pensive on
the Parkway," which began as one of her regular political commentaries for
the Little Rock NPR affiliate, was later included in A Rough Sort
of Beauty: Reflections on the Natural Heritage of Arkansas (U of
A Press 2002). The high school yearbook staff she advised received national
recognition for both layout and design and copywriting.
Her first and last stab at fiction, Under One Flag: A Year at Rohwer,
a historical fiction story for upper elementary students about World War
II Japanese internment camps in Arkansas Delta, was nominated for the 2006
Historic Preservation Book Prize from the Center for Historic Preservation
at The University of Mary Washington. The book was published by August
House Publishing, whose vice president, Liz Parkhurst, was the
co-author. Pam has also worked for August House as a freelance editor.
Pam is a member of the Guild Board of Directors, where she spends time
on programming and publicity. She's also a member of the Magazine/Nonfiction
Writing Group. Currently, an adjunct instructor at Roane State Community
College teaching developmental English courses, she also freelances as a
writer and editor for regional and national publications. She returned to
East Tennessee in 2004 after 21 years in Arkansas to work on a book project
that concerns her life, her family and the life and work of James Agee.